it. technology is bringing us someplace else. as long as we keep the artist in our fold in keep readers and writers connected we will be okay. >> directing your energies like continuing the trustee in the preservation of all that means billion don't care whether it's physical or digital. >> and $0.1 the agency that i had, because i hate to speak exclusively, a love affair with the printed word. not on how something was presented, we were very public oriented. so you do everything you possibly can to move into the public domain. that implies you use every conceivable restaurant. we are in the knowledge development and the knowledge dissemination. we do a film. we preserve will books. we help finance the writing of new books. then we try to bring the public in texas to analysis. therefore we are very big into digitization. one of my favorite quotes, the archivist to lexus said particularly in the area of research, many young people, scholars from if it is in on the internet it doesn't exist. that's a fairly awesome thought. and so that means that it speaks to nextel's as well as t

nowhere did a magazine if they want. the amazing thing about technology is take handheld spirit of free markets are about turning scarcity into abundance that is something government cannot do. 30 years ago the cell phone was the big issue box at about 30, 40 minutes of battery life has $3995. >> you have one? >> no, i use a landline. but the amazing thing is that the government got involved it would still be his biggest issue box, maybe 15 minutes of battery life as $9995 be railing against greedy cell phone makers. so today there's 5 billion in the world. have a cell phone to your banking, medical service. they become handheld computers. so the simple ones are virtually giveaways with the $3995. constant creativity and innovation. just give me one other example, the high-tech example of cell phones. even simple things. you go to a starbucks or similar coffeeshop a 12-ounce, 16-ounce, 20-ounce cups of coffee. he noticed the list at the same size that they don't have three different kinds of inventory? those little things constantly happen in this kind of an economy that's what we

and the development of shale technologies so do you because giant gas from nova tech are both down around ten percent on the year gazprom actually remains one of the most under bought stocks with a price to earnings ratio of just three point five. all right wine prices will continue to rise next year and in two years then you're the blue chips could cost thirty percent more that's because of poor harvest that led to france's wind production to slump twenty percent in two thousand well wine expert and exporter sandro i.p.s. really says the mass market winds will actually be growing less by no more than ten percent and he explains why. some more of us every year five six percent us maximum ten percent because. it's a constant growth everywhere not only in france also in new world why is it that the price of wine always growing if we're talking about. best wines or france and some good wines from other countries the quality is going up and some of them most of them let's say. most of them cut the volumes to make the call to better and the second reason is that more and more people are

royalty fund. it was established in the 1960s to help dockworkers displaced by technology, the port alliance says these days those royalties serve as a bonus to workers, not a safety net. but the union disagrees saying the payments still help compensate workers for lost job opportunities. florida is home to almost a third of the ports that would be affected by the potential strike, governor rick scott says he's still thinks a deal will be reached, but if it doesn't he's counting on washington to step in. allison worrell, "n.b.r.," fort lauderdale, florida. >> susie: volatility was the word of the day here on wall street. investors were fixated on the war of words in washington over the fiscal cliff, and shrugged off some encouraging news today about jobs. fewer americans filed for jobless benefits last week: new claims fell 12,000 to 350,000. but the labor department says the christmas holiday may have distorted the numbers, as some state offices were closed monday and tuesday and could not provide data. in the markets, the volatility index, or what's often called the "fear index,"

of these things you know absolutely our technology we consider it is car sharing two point zero because our technology allows a truly on demand experience for our members they can simply locate a vehicle on their smartphone walk up to it and use their membership card to unlock the doors and as you mentioned in the previous piece put in your pin code answer a couple questions and you're free to drive and you're not you're not locked into a period of time that you need to return the car nor do you have to lock into it tell us where you're going to return it to so our technology really gives our members that flexibility that. who would otherwise only have with their own vehicle but may choose not to own another vehicle or in a lot of cases we're seeing families that have two vehicles downsizing to one but still having that need for another vehicle and car to go suits that need for them as well what the back and i mean just the logistics of getting the cars where they're in demand that maybe they aren't or are managing the insurance then that's fueling and keeping them clean and all

r.t. dot com. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. in any given city whether you're sitting in new york or london where many of our viewers are there is a cow industry and very likely regulations that govern it in new york the medallion system has become a speculative investment with corporate tax the medallions increasing as thousand per cent from their average price of fifty thousand dollars in one thousand nine hundred eighty. in stockholm reportedly their system is a little freer market where taxis are allowed to charge whatever price they like and in d.c. where after countless nights waiting in long lines after arriving to the train station with a dearth of cabs and some that couldn't even drive to my address because of the limits of their permits and rules governing them i hopped into a couple cabs to explore our own cities silly regulations and one market antidote we possibly found them. dexie. taxi in washington d.c. like many other cities you can't always get a cab when and where you need one but when you

pope made one, that caught a lot of people's eyes, which was about technology, quite critical comments about technology, which seemed quite a bit odd, given that he has only just started using twitter. >> he is not opposed to technology, as such. he is actually quite charming in his use of it -- for example, twitter. i think he is drawing attention to something that concerns a lot of people, not just catholics or christians, and that is that in the revolution, the information revolution that we are living through, the past 30 years or so, we are all of us experiencing the increasing pace of that revolution that is putting people in distress. we experience it has individuals with the phenomenon is burned -- phenomenon of burnout, which is virtually epidemic in the western world. of course, for society, it has a very serious repercussion, mainly that a society where everybody feels overloaded and cannot cope with how much they are being asked to do, it becomes a very uncaring society, a very egotistical society, and ultimately carries the seeds of its own destruction within itse

taking a break from the news next though your essential monthly technology update from our secret anyway very shortly after this break. a sacred place rising out of the waters of the lake the lawn ministry is home to one hundred fifty orthodox monks mostly younger than thirty five and they've come from many different places and backgrounds to live in isolation here spiritual life it takes up many hours on the road to becoming a monk requires both hard work and religious telly cation. salem's to become and has cattle as part of this preparation. however these beasts get a musical company. they can remember sound sequences you know they want this sound signals the flutes the herders had in the old days they needed them it wasn't just a fun thing but these meadows didn't come naturally requiring decades of composting to bring the soil up to farming standard this island is mostly rock. the soil here is very thin on the monks can't just get more of it because they're surrounded by the lake so they have to work very hard in order to provide whatever food they need. they grow their own c

data. well, technology shares under pressure, especially the large cap names. the selling could be due to uncertainty on a budget deal and folks just wanting to lock in gains, potentially, of course, before taxes on capital gains go up next year. maybe not such a surprise. check out the spider select technology fund, an etf, exposure to the likes of, yes, app 8, and soft -- apple, and software makers and stocks. xlk, the name, and it's dropping. apple, of course, look at what apple's doing, down today, about 1%, but it is up 27% this year. google moving higher. microsoft and ebay lower today, especially ebay down, well, nearly a buck today on the trade. all right, so about, oh, about 47 minutes left of trading on the day after christmas. the markets still trying to get back to the water mark. they are now down about six points after briefly getting above in positive territory. tech stocks the worst. case index showing home prices on the rise, a good thing. check in on how this moves the markets, if at all, nicole's on the new york stock exchange, and jeff flock at the cme. nicole?

minutes we will have technology update as the signs that were shaped to market. the mighty volga that runs deep through the russian soul it has provided inspiration for songs and poems and is the country's main north south artery and decades ago schumann ingenuity connected it to the dawn river to the west the volga dong canal is an engineering marvel within a day a vessel can pass the canals thirteen locks ten million tons of shipping does so every year. another concrete giant is this finished fifty years ago it's the biggest hydroelectric plant in europe empowers the local city of volgograd and sends lots more electricity to moscow the hydroelectric plant behind me is a potent example of how much the volga can provide but harnessing the river like this isn't without its cost. fishermen have been watching fish stocks for years they see the slow damage the downing of the river has done especially to russia's prized sturgeon the source of caviar plec and the president of the hydroelectric plant has done significant damage because it stocked fish swimming up river to their spawning grou

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technology update we've got the future covered. on. morning news today violence has once again flared up and police are the images for world peace and seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are old today. welcome back this is r.t. live from moscow let's get into it straight into the world update some of the global headlines for you in brief madrid's doctors and nurses once again on the streets calling for plans for privatized hospitals to be scrapped but the striking now for a fifth week in a row medical workers are also angry of a possible layoffs but many still unsure whether their contracts will be renewed next year spends government says the cuts and needed to maintain the health service through recession and countries regions are a total of one hundred eighty five billion euros and. the opposition in egypt has dismissed president morsi as calls for dialogue he doesn't offer any real. it was on wednesday that morsi delivered his first national address after signing in the new charter hailing it as paving the road to democracy over the opposition insists the new

hours. china says it developed the high-speed train line on its own based on technologies used by japan's bullet train. the launch of the new service expands china's high-speed railway network to more than 9,300 kilometers. officials plan to extend the network to 16,000 kilometers by 2020. the chinese government temporarily suspended construction of high-speed train lines after 40 people died in a two-train collision last year. but it has resumed construction with the aim of helping correct economic disparities between england and the coastal areas, and shoring up the economy. strong concerns remain in china about the safety of high-speed railways. >> translator: it's good to be fast, as well as safe. but safety should be given priority. >> reporter: railway ministry officials stress that they will reinforce safety measures. these including limiting maximum speed to 300 miles per hour for the time being, 50 kilometers per hour slower than what the trains are capable of. shun ishibe, nhk world. >>> a suicide bomber has struck a u.s. military base in afghanistan, killing three peopl

fact technology versus trees and would you believe it this machine can fall and stripped hundreds of them each day when building this facility we wanted to use advanced technology that would increase efficiency and allow us not to use manual labor also this provides for better quality goods as a result we were able to conquer western markets the demand for korea you know birchwood is high since our production line is quite efficient where over to work for high wages to our employees the trunks and up here weather turned into planks which branch off for all manner of uses wood exports and large but not all of it goes with gold. given the museum island traditional methods they used to build and maintain churches and dwellings dating back hundreds of years. of what. complexity these planks are about to become part of something which exemplifies the combination of tradition and technology. here at the valley and all viking boat makers what is fashioned into vessels new and old they range from small private boat to replicas used in historical t.v. series hornblower. my books are all speci

mysteries of this so check it all out on technology update we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so horrible you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. please. please. please please. liz. the. question would be soon which bryson if you knew about song from funniest impression . from stunts on t.v. dot com. and. welcome back to crossfire remind you we're talking about a possible to find the way. alexander like to go back to you in brussels you know outside of the west however we're going to find that the west has seen as a bit very violent ok over the last twenty years since nato interventions is this something that the west should be proud of. well i mean i think the west is still the largest force for good in the world i mean the interventions that have taken place if you think about afghanistan for example that has been to rout out al qaeda operation based terrorist organizatio

cell. phone technology we've got the future. coming up. a new belief. is a. welcome across about the mind you were talking about the possible the fall of the west. eleanor like to go back to you in brussels you know outside of the west however we're going to find that the west has seen is very very violent ok over the last twenty years it's nato interventions is this something that the west should be proud of. well. part of the force for good in the world i mean the interventions that have taken place if you think about afghanistan for example that has been to rout out al qaeda operation based terrorist organization that has struck around the world from bali to madrid to london there has been one grave there on which europeans and americans had a you know a dramatic fall out that was the iraq war that should not have taken place but compared to certain other regions the west is the most peaceful and stable region there is no conflict inside of the west if you look to russia with the chechen conflict in the northern caucasus if you look to singe are now in the diner that's been over f

source of all of our technology and ultimately our military power and potential for growth and we are ttling into over the pale, everybody in silicon view is angling for green subsidies and it is a tragedy. lou: that tragedy compounded by the fact the money that has been spent by this administration if you will on venture money like solyndra has been disastrous. >> they are twisting our venture capitalist, turning people like john doerr into a blithering idiot. john seeking government subsidies. he now wants us to support him rather than him to support the country with wonderful new companies like intel. lou: john is being adaptive to new realities. the primary source of the capital, he is turning to it, i suppose. i want to turn to this book, "the israel test." you take up the issue of the world civilization, importance of israel within it. as a capitalist as well as jewish state. you really believe that israel is that strong, that important in the world's future? >> i certainly do. the american economy is heavily dependent on israel today, partly because of the debauchery of silicon

rest. >>> sector analysis particularly important technology. people confuse this group of stocks constantly. tech is actually a whole group of sectors, semiconductor -- semiconductors, hardware makers, cell phone, tech, telecommunications tech, infrastructure stocks, assemblers, each has a separate growth rate. here i look to look at the earnings per growth rate shares of companies i follow versus individual slices of the sectors. the sector growth rate doesn't work even though people keep trying to use it. cloud stocks are highly valued meaning the price to earnings to growth rates are extreme. that means there's no room for error or hair as we call it, meaning something is wrong, some chink that could upset the growth rate. in 2007 my favorite sales.com reported a magnificent quarter but the growth was lighter than expected. it got pancaked, why? it underperformed its shoergz of the technology sector even as the growth rate would have been outstanding for a personal computer-related stock, disk drive, semiconductor, or cell phone companies. these days knowing what the sector is

for others it's been a lifetime of work along the mysteries of the cell. phone technology. the future . choose your language of choice because we know if somebody else going to help them out. of the fumes of the consensus be accountable. to the opinions that invigorated your mind fuck you for the story's good in high life choose be access to your office. if. he'd. eat fish fish. eat. such. welcome back to crossfire good to mind you were talking about the possible to find the way. alexander like to go back to you in brussels you know outside of the west however we're going to find that the west is seen as a bit very violent ok over the last twenty years it's nato interventions is this something that the west should be proud of. well i mean i think the west is still the largest force for good in the world i mean the interventions that have taken place if you think about afghanistan for example that has been to rout out al qaeda operation based terrorist organization that has struck around the world from bali to madrid to london there has been one grave there on which europeans and ameri

tree. just as technology gradually consumes more of our wealth, toymakers are increasingly weaving it into a child's play experience, using touch screens, apps and built in technology. >> as technology becomes more prevalent in the home, children are instantly drawn to what parents have. the ipad is becoming a family purchase. >> but luckily, there are simpler openings out there driving the market. >> we have seen a lot of lovely toys today, haven't we, hannah? >> yeah. >> what is your favorite toy that you've seen here? >> the dollies. >> the dollies? >> parents will notice a lot of old favorites coming back with a money day twist. so is this a reflection of the bearish times we're living in or is it a wishful remembrance of christmas past? >> legos has always been a retrotoy. but yes, during tough times, people come back to tried and true brands and brands they know have great play value. >> wonderful 2013 products that will probably sneak into the market this christmas. it's turtles. and that was another retrovoid coming back. but companies have to be innovated, they have to keep d

don't even know the surveillance capabilities of the technology that we use. so in pennsylvania, a high school gave free laptops to all their students and until the students or their parents that they could turn on the camera from the school. they were only supposed to turn on if a laptop was going to take a picture of the feet. they took 50,000 photos of these high school students. and where do you have your laptop? you have it while you're sleeping, we go into the shower and so forth. it came to light when a principal slapped on a picture and said we see are using drugs, and he was shot. it was mike and ike candies. all this information can be used in ways that can benefit us in some ways, but also, whether you get a job, or based on your credit and insurance, it could be a digital doppelgÄnger. when you do traveling across the web. -- insurers are being told, don't bother with those expensive urine and blood tests if someone qualifies for life insurance. just look at their social network page. these are things that could get you in trouble. if you commute to work, you eat fast

technology revolution i'm in favor of globalization but i think we do need to pull back and really face the fact that there are some winners the not just the one percent but the zero point one percent the zero point zero one percent those at the very very top are doing extremely well and there are also some losers and the biggest losers are the people in the middle class in the western industrialized countries who are facing tremendous sustained and i think continuing downward pressure on their incomes as in the nineteenth century i think it's going to require a very significant social and political accommodation the invention of new institutions to make twenty first century capitalism work for the middle class well in the in the eight hundred eighty s. there was the never to stop monopoly and it didn't really get aggressive until teddy roosevelt's administration and even those attached who followed him i think ultimately broke up standard oil and. so you know it took a generation. or so. ronald reagan in the first or second year of his presidency functionally stopped the justice department

and i am short the rest. sector analysis is particularly important in technology. because people confuse this gigantic group of stocks, which comprises more than 15% of the s&p 500, constantly. tech is actually the agglomeration of a whole group of sectors, semiconductors, disc drives, software, cloud, internet, personal computers, large scale enterprise hardware makers, tech, tech communications, infrastructure stock, assemblers. each has a separate growth rate. and here i like to look at the earnings per share growth rates of the companies i follow versus the individual slices of the sectors. because the sector growth rate doesn't work even though people keep trying to use it. cloud stocks, for example-r highly valued. meaning the price teernings and growth rates are extreme. that means there's no room for error, or hair as we call it, meaning something is wrong, some chink that could upset the growth rate. in 2011 one of my favorite cloud plays, salesforce.com, report aid magnificent quarter but its guidance for its billings was later than i was hoping. the stock immediately g

tyranny to me but that's just my opinion. the so. well with. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge you're covered. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations throughout the day. this is also the welcome bag with the christmas holiday season in full swing the festive mood has taken its toll on the british or many who just can't say enough is enough when it comes to drinking it means some tough times for the country's emergency services. one to the northeast of the country to meet some revelers. well it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little t. merry but the christmas period once again upon us during so when is campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing so the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. millions

standing back and certainly not denying is certainly not wanting to roll back the technology revolution or globalization but sort of standing back and saying you know wait a minute the reality is capitalism in the twenty first century in the western industrialized is not working for the middle class and the statistics say that you know particularly in the united states middle class incomes have stagnated for the past decade think about that middle class has been treading water for ten years that's a long time and the economy has been growing a lot in that period so i think people are starting to think about all of this in new ways but what is really striking for me is how hard it is for the political discourse to shift because i think that we've sort of been trained not to sink in these sorts of structural terms we've been trained to think about the economy and about success or failure as just about us as personal you know should i retrain how do i build my career what sort of school should i send my kids to and it's been taboo to talk about class. economic distribution struc

that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisitions the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell. art see london. now coming up russia u.s. relations the syrian conflict and other major challenges all discussed in exclusive interview with russia's foreign minister that's in a few minutes. cut i. played. play. thanks. thanks. thanks. i. good laboratory. was to build the world's most sophisticated robot which really doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation and why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. to russia's foreign minister thank you very much for being with r.t. today my pleasure by your ending your ear with a visit to india russia has been clear in its supp

military technology this is live near putin's first visit to the south asian area since his return to the kremlin that. last week europe witness yet another wave of protests in two of the country's worst affected by the continent's debt crisis a new wave of a new austerity drive by the spanish government drove thousands into the streets of madrid in protest demonstrators called it a budget of hunger and misery and held a mock funeral for the country's finances meanwhile wednesday a twenty four hour general strike in the greek capital athens left public services and transportation paralyzed this is four of the country's biggest banks declared they would need a twenty seven billion euro handout to stay afloat crisis strategist gonzalo euro says despite all efforts european nations still haven't solved their basic problems . right now. you know national community b i have nothing to be an easy have wars austerity which makes investors happy but of course makes the people and the best community is relatively happy because you know there was greater safeguards that their money is going to the

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phone only to technologies had spread as widely as the mobile phone. no technology has spread as rapidly as the mobile phone. the only other recent one was the transistor radio and before that, it was fired to spread as wildly. so, what is the -- we know what it means in our lives and what smart phones been and all that but what does it mean for the majority of the world's population. it was built highways, communication highways and labor never connected before. in afghanistan we talk about story that you asked about entrepreneurs and was responsible for creating the afghan cell phone company. this is the biggest story in afghanistan and the last ten years. we don't hear about it. why? because the fact that more afghans today have access and know how to read or write, when a decade ago they would have had to walk 700 miles to make a phone call. but that's not a story. what is a story? it is a big story. i would imagine it is something that means a lot to them in terms of their key devotees. but what is even more exciting, you think about when we build the railroads, there's a lo

to become the first. force fall in the. world of. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia. the huge area covered. thanks for staying with us here on r.t.c. seventeen minutes past the hour now and been a series of tit for tat moves between moscow and washington this week restrictions to stop americans adopting russian children were approved by russia's lower house of parliament the move intended to put the white house under public pressure to reconsider its sanctions on some russian lawmakers the ban which is split russian public opinion as part of a wider legislation meant to target those who abuse the rights of russians are brought it was sparked by washington in washington imposing travel and financial restrictions on russian officials suspected of involvement in the death of lawyer sergey magnitsky he died in custody during a massive tax fraud investigation three years ago russian president vladimir putin though says the u.s. should look at its own record before criticizing others for human rights violations . that our us partners and the

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corporate analyst in india tracking markets, technology was considered the engine of growth for the country and one of the bright spots for the market. is technology still one of the areas you are tell clients to invest in in india, or what are the sectors you're looking at? >> i think there's two sectors whether you look at india, china, or asia. there's two sectors we like. it's technology, as you said. i think that's one that -- it's a bright gem. you know, it went from, in india, from a bpo outsourcing business and has grown to an innovation business where brands are being developed and real technological gains are being had. the other sector we like is health care. the demand for health care in these markets is just continuing to grow steadily. obviously people are having longer lives, having more disposable income for health care and treatment. and so those are two sectors we really like. >> okay. and curious, as an emerging market investor, how closely are you watching the fiscal cliff negotiations here in the u.s., the debt crisis in europe? how closely are you watching fact

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chaos computer club to draw public attention to the risks of information technology. >> our motto is to protect private data but to use public data. our government data should be electronically accessible. those ideas date from the 1980's. >> information security and censorship are major themes of this year's congress, billed as europe's biggest gathering of independent computer experts. one star guest was u.s. internet activist jake of applebaum -- jacob applebaum. he warns that governments are increasingly spying on citizens and said there are plans to build in that massive data mining centers in the u.s. there was also criticism of germany for the data it collects in the name of security. >> we see some services want to break into their citizens computers. the goal is to control the networks. this happens in china, saudi arabia, and india. while european and american politicians flirt with censuring the internet or restricting it. of course we oppose that. >> among the club's hacktivists, programmers and i.t. experts have boosted attendance to record levels. >> when we come back,

; globalization, the technology revolution. and one reason i think that it's really pretty clear that those are key drivers is this is a global phenomenon. and i do sometimes think the american discourse about it tends to be very american. so i'm always quite entertained when i read about, you know, a paper that says rising income inequality in the united states is due to this one particular law passed in the 980s. -- 1980s. okay, then how does that account for rising income inequality in canada or, indeed, even in france, in germany, in the united kingdom? i mean, it's happening all over the world, it's also happening in emerging markets. but i think it is important to face that scary because if you see it just as a political phenomenon, you know, you're going to lose sight of what i think is the biggest challenge which is that these, actually, quite benign economic forces, right? i love the technology revolution, i'm a google addict. they're also drivers of social and political consequences which are not quite so benign. the way i like to look at it, and this is a quote from peter o

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the chinese to promote all kinds of clean technology. we've had an office in beijing since 1995 and 30, 35 people there, we have good contacts in the government. good contacts in the business community and we're making a difference there, but what it's about, is helping the chinese to improve their efficiency. david, their industrial efficiency is improved by two-thirds since 1980, but they're still 15 to 20% behind where they need to be. they are he going to get there in the next-- >> let's be realistic, you're comparing natural gas and wind mills, it's going to be a long time before wind mills can get to where natural gas is. if we have to deal with a solution right now for the chinese to prevent them from spewing out all of that coal. 70% of their energy needs is coal-produced. if we want to switch to something cle something cleaner. natural gas in the meantime. >> what china is doing, what no one in the history has done, hundreds of millions of people from abject poverty to the middle class. it's energy and effort unfortunately #70% is coal. and we need to transition away. >> is th